Pace Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 16, 1975 TH IHGNDIYSndy oebr1,17 Ii THE RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM PRESENTS A READING BY ARTURO VIVANTE Noted Short Story Writer for THE NEW YORKER Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in BENZINGER LIBRARY (1st floor East Quad, E. Univ. btw. Hill and Willard)! THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED CAMPUS FORUM a holiday special PROBLEM DRINKING Speaker: DR. EDITH GOMBERG Professor UM School of Social Work Jimmy Cliff: The cult hero of reggae music, (Continued from Page 3) As a boy in the village, Cliff: weeks there, he managed to en- It -was at school that Cliff worked in banana and cane ter a talent show as a solo per-I learned to fight. "It was a rough fields, cutting the products and former, without any back-up in- school. You had to know how carrying them to huge piles. He struments.I to defend yourself." Knowing had to work because his family "I didn't win, but I know I how to handle himself with his was poor. His father was a tail- was the best at the contest. You' fists and with weapons would or, and they lived in a one-room had to have a lot of friends to come in handy when he moved wooden house. cheer for you, because the one into the more dangerous areas Cliff got his first taste of the who got the most applause from of Kingston. celebrated Jamaican marijuana the audience after everyone And during the filming of The courtesy of a "rasta man" - a was finished playing would be Harder They Come, it came in practitioner of the island's bib- the winner. And when you win handy artistically. "The script lical religon. you had to share up all the mon- I read originally was changed "There was a rasta man in ey with your friends. But there a lot. (Director Perry) Henzel the village," he recalled, "just were no friends to cheer for me. allowed me to ad-lib and change when the rasta men were com- "When I actually sang, I did it around. He asked me how I ing into Jamaica. People were better than anybody else, but would do this and that, and I scared of them because their when it came time for picking did it naturally." hair was long. But I go with the winner, they had to cheer When it came to portraying this rasta man for a long time, for their friends. I was a coun- bly figts, Clfpayi" t and he taught me a lot about try boy, and everybody said, bloody fights, eplayeithe the rastafarians. I'm not a 'Who's this country boy?' that he had hmself fought. e rasta man myself. My parents "BUT I WENT back and I au- "These dances in Jamaica," ditioned again, at another he said, "these open air dances r THE RASTA religion holds re- theater, and I won this time. with the big record playing sys- patriationto Africa as a I started winning a few. And tems-they sometime get rough. goal for blacks. "He told me a then I got a recording contract, You see them in The Harder date, and predicted that by then and a band, and made a record' They Come, but on a smaller I would be repatriated. I wasn't out of a song called "Babylon scale. You have to defend your-1 sure if I believed in him, but Downfall." It did alrightyou self the best way you can. I when that date came and I know. It wasn't that big. But I don't believe in turning the oth- wasn't repatriated, I was disil- didn't get any money for it; the er cheek. lusioned.-producer didn't pay me any "He asked me to act that part, "Herbs - well, he planted a moneyr and I acted it. I did it the way little herb, and we'd smoke." Cliff told the story of how it really would have happened."!D Cf e c e d he was cheated out of being "My second producer gave me money, but it wasn't until the third one that I got a decent amount. I think it was 10 pounds which is about 25 dollars.. 'THE THIRD PRODUCER wasn't in the recording business. All he had was a re- cord shop. But after going to all those other people who didn't pay me, I suggested to him, 'Do you want to go into the record business? I'm a singer.' "He said, 'You're a singer? Sing.' So I sang. We were with his two brothers in the shop, and the other brothers laughed at me. But he didn't. He said, 'He's the best singer I've ever heard.' "He went into the business, and after that he became the biggest producer in Jamaica. I got my first number one with him." At that time, Cliff was living in the ghetto neighborhoods of West Kingston. "When I first' went to the city, I lived at East thought they were too shabby Kingston with people I knew and raggedy. They wanted some from the country. But I didn't slick people. So it couldn't hap- feel comfortable with them. pen, because it wasn't the right "At West Kingston, it wasn't thing." He was more successful that posh a surrounding, but I in Europe and South America. was more comfortable. And "Financially, I've done fairly where I was living was behind alright. The career means more one of those big halls where to me than the money. But I al- they had dancing at least two ways wanted the money be- nights a week. So that was cause I knew the necessity of it, something good, because Ifrom growing up in that en- could hear all the latest re- vironment and knowing what cords. mionent cand knwig."a "I started writing different ioney can do." kinds of songs then. The West Cliff takes it in stridethat, brought out more of the hard- so far, he's only a moderately ness in me. < big star in America He's not "Well," he continued, "then bitter about it, and he's not ob- I started doing a lot of stage sessively seeking huge success. work, and finally I left the is- He's only on his first tour here land and started touring." in over a decade. (LIFF TOURED the United:If the bets don't pay off, it States in 1964, but he didn't'wont break him. But it looks do too well. "We created the! like the odds are in his favor. music out of the ghetto, but the producers didn't want me to Stephen Hersh is a night edi- use musicians from there. They tor at The Daily. TUESDAY, November 18 8:30 p.m. = CAMPUS CHAPEL a place for people 1236 WASHTENAW one block north of South University and Forest k Bootleg records: A booming trade in Underground markets f i I RAVEL MICH. UNION 763-214 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL SKI PARK CITY, UTAH Dec. 30-Jan. 6th WE FEATURE: " Non-stop American Airlines let departing Metro Airport.j * Ski lift tickets for 6 days atI Park City Ski Resort. 0 Accommodations at Alpine Prospector's Lodge in Park City. 1 $285/Quad, of w $299/Double! SIGN UP DEADLINE NOV. 19I FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 763-2147 COME TO 2nd FLOOR-MICH. UNION CLIFF DIDN'T betray a trace of bitterness about the rough aspects of his life on thej island - the poverty, the vio- lence. They were simply facts of life for him, that went along with the things that made him happy. dealer, like the character in the film? "No. I smoke a lot, but I've, never been involved in trading." Cliff left Samata at the age of 14 for Kingston, ostensibly to go to a technical college at night. But his real hope was to make it as a singer. After many paid for his record. "I came to him and I said, 'I come for my money man."' At this point, Cliff lapsed into Jamaican dialect to relate the conversation, the dialect in which he spoke much of the dia- logue of his film. It's nearly incomprehensible to American ears, and it was subtitled in the movie. The upshot of the conversa- tion was that the producer was willing to pay the singer one shilling - 12 cents - and had a bodyguard ready to throw him out if he didn't think it was enough money. So Cliff walked out. (Continued from Page 2) ly powerless to stop the produc- tion of underground records. 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In many California regularly keep some cases, however, the sellers of bootlegs in stock. the underground merchandise Despite the fact that officials are either not bothered by legal in the record industry describe authorities or don't fall within the bootleg manufacturers, dis- the scope of local laws. tributors, and retailers as noth- "I'd have to admit that the ing more than a "pack of main focus of our efforts have thieves," most people in the un- been towards tracing material derground album business de- back to the manufacturers, we scribe themselves as "Robin rarely take action against stores: Hoods." They argue that they who sell them .. . although you have established an "alterna- can expect more action in this tive means of distribution" to area in the future," says Jules the large corporations, accord- Yarnell, who heads the anti- ing to an employe from Mo's piracy division of the Record- Books and Records Store in ing Industry Association of Berkeley. America (RIAA). Nevertheless, the employe NATURALLY, most- retailers also notes a recent "disturb- are very reticent to discuss ing" trend in the bootleg busi- how and from whom they obtain ness. She fear? t'at even stiff- their recordings, and most er anti-bootleg laws may be at avoid problems with the auth- hand, and that authorities may orities by keeping quiet. "We've be more willing to crack down simply never had those sorts of in the months to come. legal troubles," states one em- "1t's becor'e very, very diffi- ploye from Rasputin records in cult to get ahold of the bootleg Berkeley, California, who also producers in the past six points out that California has no months, she says. The employe reveals that she often doesn't -' _- - ---0 -A even know who the bootleggers Featuring ' are; they simnly drop mater- ials by when they're available. 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